Mexican Lobby Card: Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Here's the beautifully illustrated Mexican lobby card for Tarzan Escapes (1936), La Fuga De Tarzan.
December 30, 2015
Mexican Lobby Card:
Los Hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
One of the most evocative Mexican lobby cards I've seen, Los Hermanos Del Hierro is mesmerizing in its direct simplicity and expressive illustration. Does it remind you of a Night Gallery painting like it does for me?
Mexican Lobby Card:
El Hombre Que Logro Ser Invisible
What confounded me when watching James Whale's The Invisible Man was how the formula ingested wasn't invisible itself. How could simply drinking a concoction turn you invisible? The 1940's The Invisible Woman side-stepped that by having the invisibility process induced by a machine designed by a slightly eccentric professor (John Barrymore). This imaginative Mexican lobby card is for 1958's Invisible Man in Mexico (aka The New Invisible Man), El Hombre Que Logro Ser Invisible.
Mexican Lobby Card: Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Must have been a hell of a wedding. Here's another shameless example of exploitative promotion. You never see guys in ripped clothing lying unconscious in some big ape's arms do you? Here's the pressbook.
Here's more stuff in the closet to go ape over: